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Graceland International School Fundraiser

8/7/2018

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We welcome our very first Guest Blogger, the Revd. Amjad Samuel.

What do you call an event that brings together groups, friends, youth, Irish music, concert-goers, and sandwiches to help change the world through education halfway around the world? On August 1, 2018 Africa Education Partnership wa part of a beautiful synergy between a diverse gathering of interest groups to raise over a thousand dollars for Graceland International School in Gusau, Zamfara State, Nigeria.

Last year St. Paul’s Episcopal Church youth Carly Hajducky, had collected books for Graceland School.  This year she took on the challenge of organizing and promoting a musical fundraiser for Graceland. She designed a beautiful flier, and with the help of her mom, Jody Wilson, she placed the flier at different locations in Shelton, CT.  She created an engaging campaign on social media to promote this event, a concert on the town green. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church also paid to boost Carly’s campaign on Facebook.

The response to Carly’s hard work and the popularity of the Highland Rovers Band resulted in a crowd of over 400 people gathering on the Huntington Green for a beautiful summer concert with family, friends and pets.​
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AEP, through some timely effort by Peter Dewberry – an AEP board member, provided Carly and her team of volunteers some simple and yet eye-catching T-shirts.  St. Paul’s volunteers wore those T-shirts as they joined Carly and her team.

Elaine Chagnon, AEP board member, organized a beautiful information booth.  Her booth included poster size photos of Graceland International School through the various stages of its growth, telling the story of collaboration and success in some very effective ways.  Elaine also had newsletters and brochures sharing information and news about the various activities surrounding AEP’s commitment to Graceland. Together, this created a presence for AEP on the Huntington Green that simply could not be missed!  

Adding to this presence was The Whey Station Food Truck.  The Whey Station is a gourmet sandwich food truck company. On the day of the event, they generously donated all  income – including the cost of the sandwiches and the time of staff and other overheads – for this cause. This is the second time this year that The Whey Station has made such an incredibly generous contribution to AEP.  We are deeply appreciative of their generosity.

The sandwich truck, the information booth, and the supporting team were all in place by 6:30PM when the crowd started gathering to listen to the Highland Rovers, a popular Irish music band from Shelton, CT. As the concert goers walked to the green for the concert at 7PM, the AEP team started interacting with them and sharing with them the story of Graceland International School.  The Highland Rovers encouraged people to buy the sandwiches and support the cause. In just two hours the team raised over four hundred dollars in direct donations from the most cooperative crowd! The online donations and checks are still trickling in. Please feel free to donate to this fundraiser during the month of August.

The net result of the event is an important reminder: we can all come together, from all different walks of life, to create a better world.  Musicians, concert goers, church members, young, not so young, businesses, passers-by, anyone can join in to change the world by building schools in parts of the world that may not otherwise afford to do it on their own.  And yes, if you are reading this online, you can go to www.africaep.org right now and contribute to keep this important work going; there is no reason not to!

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The AEP team that made the event so successful.
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